Row over rent upsets senior Congress leaders
A dispute over rent at the 50-year-old offices of the Congress Party has irked its senior members in western Pudukottai district.
The party has been functioning from the rented office located on Keelaraja Veedi owned by Muthuvel Chettiar. Trouble started when the party backtracked on rents after Muthuvel died some years ago. His son Somasundaram too could not collect the rent.
Finally Somasundaram went to court which ordered the Congress to vacate the premises. The party defied the court orders and continued functioning without paying the rent.
Finally an angry Somasundaram took a police team to seal the premises but was kept out by dozens of Congressmen who had surrounded the building.
Retired Congress leaders were irritated that this petty dispute was tarnishing the party’s public image.
Actor Vivek’s teenage son dies of brain fever
Tamil film comedian Vivek’s son died on October 29 of brain fever after being comatose for 45 days at a Chennai hospital.
Prasanna Kumar, 14, fainted in school and went into coma. He did not respond to treatment though Vivek consulted specialist doctors in Mumbai and abroad. The boy was cremated at Vivek’s home town of Tirunelveli.
Vivek has two daughters elder to Prasanna Kumar. The entire film industry and Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalalithaa expressed condolences.
Vivek has acted in nearly 100 films since his debut in the 1990s.
He is also an active social worker campaigning for tree plantation and environmental cleanliness to keep out dengue and other air-borne diseases.
Brain dead man gives life to six people
Six organs of a 58-year-old brain dead man helped save the lives of six patients in Chennai and Tiruchi last week.
M Nagaraj collapsed after a head injury at the Cethar hospitals in Karur district. After his relatives gave consent, doctors and police arranged a green corridor for speedy transportation of his heart, liver, kidneys and eyes. Nagaraj’s heart was transported to Chennai for a young Russian girl at a private hospital, while the other organs were taken to Tiruchi hospitals.
Organ donation in Tamil Nadu has increased due to medical campaigns, organ banks and the green corridor which is a special travel route without red lights and traffic signals on manual mode for quicker transportation.
CISF guard kills himself at airport toilet
A 26-year-old Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) guard shot himself dead with a pistol inside the toilet at the Chennai international airport last week.
Pulak Rajbongshi, a native of Assam, was found in a pool of blood by his colleagues who broke open the toilet door on hearing the shots.
He was reportedly the only son of elderly farmer parents. He did not leave a suicide note.
This incident came within days of a tea vendor being murdered on the airport premises by his business rival.
24 parakeets rescued from captivity
Twenty-four parakeets of the rose-ringed variety were rescued from a dozen houses by forest department officials in suburban Coimbatore last week.
The forest officials said the parakeets’ wings had been clipped, their tail feathers removed and beaks clipped.
